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Ep. 109: How Much Should I Read?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Productivity to High Level Athletics

There is no way to escape the productivity funnel. If you want to do knowledge work at a high level, you got to build that funnel and be intentional about it. The former is to be a professional, and the latter is to be an amateur. Productivity to high level athletics is like the training you do off to court in order to keep your bodis in pique physical condition. You can't avoid having to go from the constellation of things you could be doing to actually doing things right now.

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